Stephen Browne is deputy executive director and director of operations at the International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva. He is the author of Aid and Influence: Do Donors Help or Hinder? (Earthscan, 2006).

Recent articles

The global economic crisis is rooted in failures of governance in the rich world whose harshest effects fall on the poor. The remedy, says Stephen Browne, must be a rethinking of approaches to aid, trade, finance and the way multilateral institutions work. The London meeting on 2 April 2009 is the place to start.

The obstacles to a new world-trade deal must be overcome if developing countries are to achieve the equitable place in global markets that they deserve, says Stephen Browne.

The restriction of long-distance organic trade would damage African farmers while having minimal effects on the environment, argue Stephen Browne & Alexander Kasterine.

The framing of the global aid model embraced by governments, donor bodies and NGOs alike is flawed. It's time to recognise the fact and change the approach, says Stephen Browne.

The impact of the pioneering north-south reports of the 1980s – Brandt, Palme, Brundtland – were intimately tied to the political context in which they appeared. Stephen Browne maps this relationship and asks whether development thinking can become an instrument of global change.